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Subject:	1.7.5 cannot bg mintty
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I sometimes forget to append a & when opening a new mintty from an 
existing mintty. With rxvt this was never a problem, just ^Z and bg in 
the parent terminal (my shell is bash  3.2.49-23). This doesn't seem to 
work for mintty (0.6.2-1) though - although it seems that the job has 
has been put into the background it never becomes possible to type 
anything into the newly spawned terminal window after ^Z has been used.

If I spawn an rxvt from a mintty (or indeed an rxvt from an rxvt) using 
^Z and bg works without any problems. I can't see anything obviously 
different in the output of stty -a between my rxvt and mintty.

If I start a mintty with a &, fg it and then bg it again, the same 
effect occurs - it becomes impossible to type anything into the child 
mintty.

I can an alias to avoid tripping myself up on this all the time, but it 
seemed worth querying. Is there something I'm missing or a setting 
needed somewhere to make mintty background-able (or indeed does anyone 
else experience this behaviour?)

Thanks,

Paul




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